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08-23-2007, 11:18 PM #1WHT Addict
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Listing installed software on a server
Hi,
What is the best way to get a list of all the software installed on a Linux server? Are there specific shell commands for this?
Thanks
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08-23-2007, 11:27 PM #2Disabled
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not really for all the software, for hosting if you wanna show what software you got there is a few sysinfo scripts and for php related phpinfo.
if you are on redhat based distro you can list all rpms installed. But that isnt all software most of the time if you have things compiled in or installed some other way
rpm -qa
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08-24-2007, 06:44 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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What distribution?
rpm -qa on a redhat/centos server is a good start (although won't help you with compiled software).
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08-24-2007, 07:31 AM #4What is the best way to get a list of all the software installed on a Linux server?
Yes, RPM can help, as can any "packaging utility", but most likely that's not going to give you what you're looking for specifically. You can START with RPM, but you're going to need to narrow that down quite a bit, because RPM usually (usually) won't cover things such as perl modules, outsourced stuff, web applications (billing client, etc) and other stuff.Tom Whiting, WHMCS Guru extraordinaire
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08-24-2007, 07:32 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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Ulysses,
What softwares you wish to see? User specific or system specific?David | www.cliffsupport.com
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08-24-2007, 07:45 AM #6WHT Addict
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08-24-2007, 08:06 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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If you have the OS installed on the new server with the same release and version all softwares should be there. Now, there may be addon like firewall installs, other security installs such as mod_sec etc. To find out those, you must go through the main configurations files on the old server. There is no single step procedure to find out these kind of installs.
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08-24-2007, 01:17 PM #9Death is Sex
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I can recommend you to install webmin for managing the box. It have an option which shows all modules available on a machine.
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08-24-2007, 01:24 PM #10New Member
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I think it's impossible to list all software installed on server
but if you installed a fresh copy of OS then why don't you read about that OS
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08-24-2007, 02:27 PM #11Newbie
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listing packages on a linux server
Hi,
You can use rpm -qa for this.If you want redirect this to a file then you can use as...
# rpm -qa >filename
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08-24-2007, 05:26 PM #12WHT Addict
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I think we have managed to get enough information to set up the new server as closely as posible to the current one, so hopefully, the site/scripts will migrate without too much fuss.
Thanks again.
PS. Wouldn't it be nice of someone coded a script just for such a thing and added it to (say) WHM etc.
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08-24-2007, 11:41 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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PS. Wouldn't it be nice of someone coded a script just for such a thing and added it to (say) WHM etc.David | www.cliffsupport.com
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